Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:45:34 +0200 | From | Arend van Spriel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 29/33] net: brcmfmac - set name assign type |
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On 10-07-14 22:24, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote: >> On 10-07-14 10:17, Tom Gundersen wrote: >>> The name is given by the firmware, so we assume it is predictable. >> >> How about the scenario where one would have multiple broadcom wifi >> devices in the system. Both driver instances would alloc_netdev with >> predictable but also the same ifname. Wondering whether we should ignore >> the firmware ifname altogether. > > Hm, that would just fail irrespective of this patch, right? Sounds > like ignoring the firmware names is the right thing to do.
True. I realized that when starting to type my reply. I think at the moment we never run into the scenario that trigger this code path. Will make a separate patch for that. Probably on top of your changes.
Regards, Arend
> Cheers, > > Tom >
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